In this blog post I discuss the recent announcement that Microsoft is “All In” the Cloud and how how twenty million businesses and over a billion people use Microsoft cloud services today.
It also covers a major speech on the subject given by Steve...

Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein has recently announced that Windows 7 has sold 90 million licenses since the October 2009 release, the WindowsBlog reports. As more and more enterprise customers start evaluating and deploying Windows 7, Forrester...

Are software architects necessary?
Nobody denies the need for software architecture, but many challenge the idea that you need a dedicated software architect to get it.
Michael Stiefel compares software to painting to answer this question. Yes we...

The paper on Cloud Computing that is referenced in this article (Outlook: Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells to Follow) is one of the best treatments of the subject of Public, Private and Hybrid clouds that I have ever read.
It was written and delivered...

Technology reporter Ashlee Vance of New York Times reports what Microsoft is doing to make its phone software – Windows Phone 7 Series – right. On the product team side, Microsoft pulled Terry Myerson from the Exchange team, Joe Belfiore , a user interface...

We are putting on a series of architecture webcasts this month. Please tune in.
March 25, 2010 at 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST Title: Extending Your Sites Reach with IE8 Add On Features
Today's users are getting more sophisticated and they expect more...

The Track and Trace Solutions Department of 3M, a Fortune 500 company, recently migrated its library frequency identification (RFID) applications, with nearly 2 million lines of code, from Windows Vista to run on Windows 7. As a result, 3M has noted enhanced...

Developers can create multi-touch enabled applications on Windows 7. However, Windows 7 comes with the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, and developers will have to write extra code to implement some touch scenarios that are available in the next .NET release,...

Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies , writes at PC Magazine that “Microsoft is taking a page out of Apple's playbook with Windows Phone 7 Series.” By comparing the merits of Apple’s “closed” system with those of Google’s open source and...

Looking for a great set of resources to get your developers up-to-speed with all the new features in IE8? Need to get a jump start on resolving IE6 compatibility issues? Take a look at this blog post for some great resources to get you on...

It is increasingly common for users to run their client applications remotely, either connected to another Windows Client machine (Remote Desktop) or to a Windows Server (Terminal Services). In both of these scenarios the sources and the target machines...

Want to see how easy it really is to publish Silverlight applications to SharePoint 2010 by using the Visual Studio 2010 tools for SharePoint development? Check-out this blog post by the Visual Studio SharePoint Development team to get started (and finished...

Visual Search Suggestions are suggestions which include an image and additional text. These can help you visualize what you are searching for and sometimes even get you the information you need without even leaving the search box. Search Suggestions allow...

The Mobile “View” in SharePoint 2010 has been greatly enhanced from SharePoint Server 2007. Now Excel, Word and PowerPoint files can be viewed in mobile browsers directly. But, there’re so many different mobile browsers (even it may be the same browser...

These FREE Web App Toolkits to help you complete common web development tasks and quickly add new features to your applications. Whether it’s Bing Maps integration or adding social capabilities to your site, there’s a toolkit for you. Download and install...

Nilay Patel revealed this first Windows Phone 7 Series branded device in his recent blog post at engadget. it's just a hair thicker than an iPhone or Nexus One, there are dedicated hardware camera, volume, and power buttons in addition to the back, home...

The parallel processing team at Microsoft has released a new whitepaper that provides a detailed and in-depth tour of support in the Microsoft® .NET Framework 4 for parallel programming. This includes an examination of common parallel patterns and how...

This MSDN magazine article focuses on the use of Windows Azure in the Enterprise. Starting with the architecture of a cloud application in general and the Windows Azure Platform in particular. First the author reviews the (somewhat) accepted cloud...